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Video games, Girls, and more Video games

Video Games for a while seemed to be the world to me  back when I was 8yrs old playing on my Nintendo 64. Donkey Kong 1, 2, and 3 were my only games for the play system but thats all I needed. I was addicated to playing much as we need water to live. However, I started growing old of them because its face it the interest in 3 games does not last a life time. But then I couldn't buy anymore games because they were all pretty much the same fights, racing, and sports. Nothing much to keep a girly girly interested. Don't get me wrong there were those girls who would be playing games until late hours of the night. It was just I did not see many options for me and companies kept making new systems with new hand set and all these crazy code for certain actions that I could not keep up. Since them the only other games I've played are kingdom of hearts and it was only so I could see the story line and the disney princesses. Video games are getting better now. I see more games that girls can be included in and the Wii was the best system ever made. I love playing with my son and even though it could be a rain day and we can't physically go outside. We are playing baseball and Jaden just made a home run. We also could be playing video games, be in a rock band and play instruments all at the same time. They even have interactive store time. Forget trying to get girls to play video games, they have moms and even grandma's playing basket ball.

One step for video games 10 steps back for Disney's so called "classic"

Man...for the longest time I have loved all the Disney's classics. My first VHS was of Aladdin and I'd watch it over and over again. I couldn't buy many of the other VHS because they were back in the vault but after they came back out I was the first in line. I even went to buy them right away after they were made dvds and now of course blue ray. But now I ask myself was it work it. If you watch one you watch them all right. My eyes were shocked when I saw Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty doing the same dance just on a different scene. One couple on a dance floor and another up in the clouds. Really... Disney where is the originality or was paying for a little over time too much. I know you had to draw much of it in the past since we were still working on enhancing the computer but there are just too many resemblances in all of the classics. I use to love Baloo's dance in the Jungle Book and its the same one in RobinHood. I feel so pissed off at Disney right now but they are smart, I'll give them that. I never noticed how they reused slides and coped pretty much everything, as I bet many others did not notice. I use to know of the sexual things hidden in each movie like: On the cover of the old Little Mermaid the castle is a dick. Aladdin says "take your clothes off" when he's on the balcony trying to talk to Jasmin. Simba spells sex when he falls to the ground after singing Hakuna Matata all day and eating warms. However, I was always told that the animators did those errors because they were pissed and thats how they got back at Disney but who knows. Well as pissed off as I am at Disney I hope that the word "Classic" does not disappear and they can now make some true classics for the younger generation like my son.

WOW! Welles' War of the Worlds Rocks.

I was working on some ideas for my next paintings when I decided to explore www.otr.com and tune to Welles' War of the worlds.  Man the broadcast was so realistic that if I had been listening to it back in 1938 I'd be running in the streets as well. I enjoy having movies in the background while I work on my painting so this would work great. For some reason I do not listen to music while I paint. I guess it's because I like to listen to the emotion of the movie and make the pictures in my mind. Welles's science fiction story was just a little to real for me. I think I almost looked out the window to see if we were going to be invaded. But don't worry then I remembered it was all fake and continued working on my drawings. 

A few changes

YAY

SO I finally drew something from start to finish... I usually trace images onto my canvas and start painting. I have to say I don't love it but I hope to get better. I spend days and hours on it so I hope its not too terrible.... So here you go guys.

Canvas Experiments

So I decided that I will write down my results for my canvas experiments.

So it is definitely better to burn a canvas with a wood backing, the canvas alone burn through to easily and you lose you canvas. If you there is no wood backing(or any other material) you want to layer the surface with anything you can. Add more layers of thick gesso and pieces of canvas then more gesso. The canvas does get heaver but it will not burn through so quickly. You can also add sand and rocks mixed with gesso. it gives it a nice texture. If you but tar on the canvas and then burn the area  it will make a rock look... now if you put latex paint on top of the tar it will bubble up some... with your finger remove the black dust and you will see the texture. You can use a soft brush to brush it off but it will get rid of some of its texture and it will look washed out a bit. If you but rocks and burn the canvas will burn down and the rocks will become more visible to the eye. If you add oil paint and burn it...the oil areas will burn a lil different so you will be able to see where the oil was painted on compared to the rest of the canvas. Okay todays report is finished . Bye bye for now.